With updates of relevant links for further learning and over 180 new references, the fourth edition gives increased voice to indigenous authors, and reflects the remarkable increase in published local observations of climate change.

This text deals with the topic of traditional ecological knowledge in the context of natural resource management, and treats it as a knowledge- practice-belief complex.

Issues of sustainability and increased competition over coastal resources are changing practices of resource management.

Providing a concise overview of resilience in the context of unprecedented global environmental change, this Advanced Introduction addresses the intertwined systems of people and nature.

Managing Small-Scale Fisheries: Alternative directions and methods

Professor Fikret Berkes provides a unique introduction to the social and interdisciplinary dimensions of biodiversity conservation.

This book brings together a group of world-class scientists in an unprecedented effort to build a formal framework for linking local and indigenous knowledge with the global scientific enterprise.

Human dependence on marine and coastal resources is increasing.

A wide-ranging survey of natural resources held in common ownership, and the issues raised by their management and conservation as a key element of sustainable economic development.